Senior Engineer, Backend - Orchestration

Primer; Whitehall; Remote; GBP 65,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Share options

Uncapped holiday with 25 days

Co-working space access

Workations & Company Retreat

Home office setup £500

Learning budget

Private medical insurance

Job summary

Primer is the unified infrastructure for global payments, enabling finance and payments teams to reduce complexity and capture more revenue from a single platform. We operate fully remote with global distribution and offer competitive options and learning budgets.

The role focuses on leading backend service design for high-performance distributed systems, owning technology decisions, and advancing modern development practices within a product-driven environment.

Qualifications

• End-to-end development experience
• Experience building developer frameworks/workflows
• Python experience considered advantageous
• Autonomous, self-starting approach
• Excellent communication skills
• Payments domain knowledge to optimize merchant experience
• Willing to work remotely from Poland, Portugal, Hungary, Romania or South Africa

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of core backend services for high-performance distributed systems
• Own key technology decisions and drive scale and output
• Promote and apply BDD/TDD practices
• Create clear, modern, well-tested code
• Collaborate across teams in a product-driven environment
• Conduct code reviews and continuously improve processes
• Create detailed internal documentation for projects

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

BDD

TDD

Code reviews

Documentation

Collaboration

Job description

An Introduction to Primer

Primer is the unified infrastructure for global payments. We give finance and payments teams the visibility and control to reduce complexity, improve performance, and capture more revenue - all from a single platform.
Backed by Sofina, Peak XV Partners, ICONIQ, Tencent, Accel, and Balderton, we're building the payments layer the world's best companies rely on.

Watch our showcase >

Read up on our $100m Series C

Learn more about our culture >

What will you be doing?

• Leading the design and implementation of core backend services for high-performance, complex distributed systems
• Taking ownership of key technology decisions, building for scale and optimising for output
• Driving and using modern development practices such as BDD and TDD would be highly beneficial
• Creating clear, modern, well-tested code
• Collaborating across teams in a product-driven environment
• Conducting code reviews and continuously look at ways of improving our ways of working
• Creating detailed internal documentation for the projects you work on

What we’d love to see:

• In-depth understanding of the entire development process (design, development and deployment)
• Knowledge of building developer frameworks and workflows, allowing both customers and third parties to integrate as seamlessly as possible
• Experience in Python is advantageous (it's what we use!) but we have had success hiring engineers of any technical background and understand that people can adapt
• Highly motivated self-starter who values autonomy and getting things done
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Payments knowledge, always looking for ways to optimise our merchant developer experience
• You will need to be based in: Poland, Portugal, Hungary, Romania or South Africa.

A typical interview process

• An initial intro call with a Talent Partner
• An interview with the Hiring Manager
• Challenge Stage - Contextualised to the role
• A final, values-alignment interview

What's the culture like at Primer?

We’re building a culture where people can do their best work and be proud of the impact they have. You'll be working with people who are mission-driven, smart, and reflective, and who are genuinely invested in building exceptional products and delivering success for our merchants.
We work remotely, and have done since day one. We believe that building a successful, profitable company goes beyond proximity. We invest in our relationships through great remote working practices and thoughtfully designed face-to-face time, including workations, our annual company retreat, and access to co-working spaces across most major cities.
The work is challenging. Scaleups are a challenge, and building category-defining products is a challenge. But there's a meaningful difference between a challenge and a struggle. At Primer, the right challenge comes with the right support: strong onboarding, a collaborative environment, and a team that is genuinely invested in your success. It's never something you face alone.

Our benefits

• We are fully remote and globally distributed; and have been since day one
• Competitive share options
• Uncapped holiday, with 25 days minimum to be taken
• Co-working space access across major cities
• Workations & Company Retreat
• The best equipment for your role
• £500 towards your home office setup
• Generous learning budget
• Private Medical Insurance
• A broad set of additional perks and benefits (depending on location)

Don’t meet every single requirement?

At Primer, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification listed, we encourage you to apply. You may be the right candidate for this or other roles.
Primer is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and adopts a zero-tolerance approach to discrimination, regardless of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, or any other background or belief.